Culture can be defined as all the material and spiritual values created by humankind and the institutions necessary in order to communicate these values.



Traditional Romania culture is a set of ideas, traditions and beliefs, which are preserved in time within some social or national groups, and which are spread orally from a generation to another, highlighting for each group its specific feature. Traditions preserve real or legendary information concerning facts or events of the past, communicated orally.

As far as Romania music is concerned, we can mention that it used to have voices like Maria Tanase, the greatest folk music singer in Romania and it has voices like Mihai Trastariu or bands like "Iris", which have collaborated with international names like "Uriah Heep". Romanian classical music and the opera have representatives like Leontina Vaduva, a great artist of our times.

To continue with, Romania culture means literature and names like Nichita Stannescu or Marin Preda. The former was a great modern Romanian poet and the latter a novelist. Romanian literature has representatives like Mircea Eliade in the domain of fantastic literature or Emil Cioran in the domain of philosophy.

Religion is an important cultural aspect in Romania. Most of the people are Christian orthodox, but there are other religions, too, like Roman Catholic, reformed or any other religions. Religious tolerance is an important feature of Romanians, as they are well aware that we all are created and are controlled by the same Almighty God. In general, older people who are not very busy go to the church every Sunday and pray there together with more members of the community.

Romanians are quite superstitious and they strongly believe in magic and in invisible forces, good or evil ones.

For example, they consider that if they find a needle somewhere it is a sign of quarrel or poverty. Furthermore, if on February 2 snow melts, and drops from the eaves, bees will produce a lot of honey that year. Besides, many specific superstitions are related to important moments in a person's life, like wedding, childbirth, baptism, death. For example, a specific Romanian superstition on wedding day is that the bridegroom must pay a symbolic sum of money to one of the bride's representatives before entering the bride's house.

Romanian culture means sport too. Famous names like Nadia Comaneci in gymnastics and Gheorghe Hagi in football makes Romanians feel proud of their nation. Actually, gymnastics has always been a successful sport in Romania. Football as well is a Romanian sport, which makes people excited on any occasion of international matches.

To conclude, Romania culture is extremely rich, but unfortunately, nowadays it was blurred by the multitude of non-values promoted on commercial purposes. The good news is however that there still exist people willing to preserve this culture.